@Kaustav&nbsp; I have so many favorites that I've lost count. You are so prolific. I can say though that this is the largest favorite painting of yours so far. I hope that you won't fiddle with it any longer. Well done. Summer

How has your evolving work helped to change the trajectory of your career as an artist and your experience of creating these master pieces?

You are modest and don't share much about the business side -- or maybe I just missed those posts. I just remember you saying a year and a half ago or maybe two years ago that you were frustrated with the art scene there. And that most of the paintings that were selling were more religious in nature. Has that change for you?

How has your evolving work helped to change the trajectory of your career as an artist and your experience of creating these master pieces?

You are modest and don't share much about the business side -- or maybe I just missed those posts. I just remember you saying a year and a half ago or maybe two years ago that you were frustrated with the art scene there. And that most of the paintings that were selling were more religious in nature. Has that change for you?

Hi @Bancroft414 Thanks very much. I'm right now focusing on improving my skill in Landscape painting. This is happening with every big painting.

I talked to two dealers who started working for me now. Also, there were some sales here last year in DMP. I'm taking my time to understand the business side to fine tuning my strategy. Presently working towards a one man exhibition in an academy in my home town. Approaching galleries in Delhi will happen too in the near future.

Mass produced modern art (sale focused religious and secular) and conceptual s**t are dominating Indian space. There has been a huge shift in Maharashtra towards realism. But it'll take some time here. One thing I'm clear about is that I'm not mass-producing my paintings...focusing on quality rather than quantity. I am becoming more and more determined about what I want to do. I want to picture the scenes of India and it's people beautifully to the world and break the stereotypes.

K said: " I want to picture the scenes of India and it's people beautifully" you do this very well and I wonder that your scenes should be more popular with a spiritual populace. I wonder if they would be more commercially viable if there were more figures and faces. My comments are based solely on the spirituality that is obvious to me in your paintings and of course my own tastes. Am I too arrogant to think that people of a different religion and a different language, 7800 miles away might like what I like?

@BOB73 yes. I am also aiming at social landscapes in future. But presently The pure landscapes are the only things I'm doing. Personally without the association of people or animals landscape painting is incomplete

Hi @Kaustav. I'm not Richard but cleaning off paintings is something I do--haha. Shake off as much debris as you can by just shaking the painting with both hands. I also blow on the surface . I have an electric hand vacuum that I'd use next very gently with a cloth over the nozzle. Then I'd take a dust-free cloth and add a little distilled water and wipe the surface of the painting gently but thoroughly. I'd put it in a drying area that is dust free after that for a few hours or days until it is bone dry again. If I think there might be oil on the surface from oily hands touching the painting, I'd wet another dust free cloth with a little mild mineral spirits and wipe the entire surface gently. Then I'd place it in a dust-free drying area again for a few hours or days depending upon the weather. Now it is ready for varnishing. I've been warned not to use matte varnish because it causes the surface to become cloudy but I don't see that happening to the painting I varnished a few months ago. I used matte on a particular painting recently because I didn't want to deal with possible over-reflectiveness. I see over-reflectiveness a lot in other people's paintings. It can be dealt with. Cloudiness from simply using a matte varnish is probably true and I am on the lookout for this to happen to my paintings in the future but I'm hoping it won't. Also, they warn us not to use gloss varnish if the weather is humid for the same reason--causes cloudiness. I tend to believe this is true from the Google Images I've seen. I have never varnished during rainy season so I don't know that this is true personally. Hope this helps. Summer